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Amazing Facts & Trivia (32nd Edition)

Here are some AMAZING FACTS & TRIVIA to impress your friends and dazzle your enemies!!

  1. Coca-Cola stock purchased in 1919 for $40 would be worth $9.8 million today
  2. The word “salary” comes from the Romans who paid their soldiers in salt, a rare commodity
  3. The flag planted on the Moon surface was purchased at a local Sears store for around $5
  4. Over 200 people in the town of Cooby Pedy in Australia live in underground opal mines.
  5. More people have died from taking selfies than shark attacks.
  6. Treadmills were used as punishment for prisoners in 1818 England.
  7. Women in Japan can hire men to come over, watch sad movies with them, and wipe their tears.
  8. Wanna climb Mt. Everest? It’ll cost you between $60K and $120K .
  9. Argentinean ants have mega-colonies and are welcomed by other ants around the world.
  10. Rats on cocaine prefer jazz music.
  11. The Whiptail lizard is an all-female species.
  12. Crows have shown to have abstract reasoning, imagination, anticipation, and problem-solving.

.and now you’re a little bit smarter!

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